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Re:Backpack X-Ray Machine (2016) by atlasunshrugged on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @12:03PM (#20941627)
I disagree with your last two statements for the reasons talked about below, not everywhere with smuggling problems means that scanners will have no use, some police officers want to do their jobs.

As to my situation, many countries have underfunded enforcement agencies, I'm mainly looking into tobacco taxation as a nonprofit intervention but illicit trade with smuggling being a part of that erodes the efficacy of such interventions, and if there was a cheap way to equip law enforcement with the means to identify illicit products being smuggled, then there may be a financial case to purchase them on their behalf

Re:Backpack X-Ray Machine (2016) by oh_sigh on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @04:58PM (#20944630)
What areas of the world satisy the constraints: (low funding, very intermittent power, high levels of cigarette smuggling, low corruption)?

I know of a lot of smuggling that will generally be unbribeable if caught, like human, ivory, or drug smuggling.